Jarte - Free Word Processor and WordPad Replacement
Contents
- Index
Main Options and Quick Tools
The Main Options and Quick Tools are accessed by the Main Options and Quick Tools button on the Main Tools panel.
Use System Tray Icon: Places the Jarte program icon in the system tray located on the Windows Taskbar. Clicking the Jarte system tray icon brings Jarte to the front of any other programs on the screen. The Jarte system tray icon goes away when Jarte is exited.
Dockable Tool Panels: Controls whether the main tool panel and side tool panel can be undocked. Turn this option off if you want to prevent accidental undocking of a tool panel or if you want to prevent accidental docking of undocked tool panels.
The side tool panel can be docked on either the left side or right side of the Jarte program.
Note: The side panel can only be undocked by using the mouse to grab the panel's border area. In other words, you must click the mouse on the Jarte background outside the black area of the side tool panel.
Show Hints: Controls whether a hint window is displayed when the mouse is briefly paused over a button.
Sound: Controls whether an audible click is produced when a button is clicked.
Quick Clips: The Quick Clips feature allows the middle mouse button to be used to perform clipboard operations. A three button mouse or a mouse with a clickable scroll wheel is required to use this feature. The clipboard operations can be executed as follows when Quick Clips is enabled:
Paste: Click the middle mouse button.
Copy: Click the middle mouse button while pressing the Control (Ctrl) key.
Cut: Click the middle mouse button while pressing the Control (Ctrl) key and the Shift key.
Note: The Quick Clips feature should work with most three button mice, but it is only officially supported for use with Microsoft's IntelliPoint mouse. Ensure you are using latest IntelliPoint mouse driver by visiting www.microsoft.com/intellipoint. Also, check your mouse settings by going to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Mouse. Ensure the middle mouse button is set to the default action.
Select Whole Words: Controls whether the mouse selects whole words at a time or selects individual characters as the mouse is dragged over text .
Word Wrap: Controls whether the document's text is wrapped. The current document's word wrap status is shown on the status bar.
Show File Extension: Controls whether file name extensions are displayed in the program title bar and the document tabs.
Show Ruler: Controls the display of a ruler above the document window.
Enable Smart Quotes: This feature is only available in Jarte Plus. Smart quotes are the directional curly quotes implemented by most fonts. For example, the following line uses curly quotes:
To be or not to be... ...that is the question.
and the following line uses the normal straight quotes:
"To be or not to be..." '...that is the question.'
Note that some fonts use more distinctive curly quotes than others. The examples shown here use the Times New Roman font which has distinctive curly quotes. The same keyboard key is used for both curly quotes and straight quotes. The setting of the Smart Quotes option determines which type of quotes the quote key produces. Smart quotes require version 3.0 of the Windows RTF editing engine.
Auto URL Detect: This feature automatically converts web addresses in a document into clickable hyper-links. Detected web addresses are made blue and underlined and the mouse cursor turns into a pointing hand when placed over the address text. Click the web address while pressing the Control key to open the address in a web browser. Any currently open documents need to be closed and reopened after changing this option before the change will have full affect in those documents.
Auto Click Buttons: Controls the activation behavior of the five red tool panel selector buttons. The behavior choices are:
Normal Auto Click: The buttons automatically activate after pausing the mouse over them very briefly.
Slow Auto Click: The buttons automatically activate after pausing the mouse over them slightly longer than is required for Normal Auto Click.
Auto Click Off With Peeking: The buttons do not automatically activate when the mouse is paused over them. However, the tool panel associated the button being paused over temporarily previews itself until the mouse moves off of the button. The button does not activate unless it is clicked.
Auto Click Off: The buttons only activate by clicking them.
Document Background Color: Provides a choice of document window background colors using the popup color chooser.
Zoom: Provides a choice of zoom values for magnifying or unmagnifying a document's view. A default zoom setting may be chosen as well as a zoom setting that applies only to the active document. When the active document's zoom setting is changed the new zoom level is temporarily displayed in the Status Bar.
Open Link: Opens your default web browser to a specified world wide web address or opens your default e-mail program to a specified e-mail address. If a web address or e-mail address is already selected in the current document Open Link immediately opens the web browser or e-mail program using that address. If no address is selected you will be prompted to enter an address.
Word Count: Counts the number or words and characters contained in the current document. A page count is also included if Jarte is able to locate a default printer. If text is highlighted (i.e., selected) then the counts will reflect only the highlighted text.
Personal Shortcut: This feature is only available in Jarte Plus. It prompts for a new user name and then creates a new desktop shortcut for that user. Each user's desktop shortcut brings up their own personal version of Jarte with all their personal settings.
For example, each member of a family can create their own Jarte desktop shortcut. Each family member then has access to their own personal version of Jarte that remembers their own choice of background pattern, favorite files, favorite fonts, document background color, personal spell check dictionary, saved clipboard clips, etc.
This is very useful anywhere more than one person uses Jarte on the same computer.